Strategic AML Transformation: Through Advisory, Data Empowerment and Tech Innovation

Andanta is risk compliance, digital identity and fraud data expert. She has experience of working with government ministries, industry bodies, aid agencies, and the private sector across APAC. After 5 years as a risk specialist, she is now working with the partnerships team to build and scale strategic partnerships for the risk proposition of Refinitiv. 

Sanjiv has 25 years’ experience in CDD, AML and Operational Risk areas. He has worked in regional leadership roles at JP Morgan, Standard Chartered and Scotiabank. Sanjiv has extensive understanding of regulatory expectations and has solved regulatory challenges for these banks using innovative approaches. He has also rolled out band wide technology solutions in AML risk compliance areas.  

Sanjiv has a bachelor’s degree  from IIT Kanpur and MBA from IIM Bangalore.

Captain Ramanan Subramanian retired from the Indian Navy after about 3 decades of active service in Feb 2018. He is an Alumni of Naval Engineering Course and graduated with BTech. (Electrical) degree in 1992. He is a post graduate in Nuclear Technology from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India and has a Masters in Management Studies from College of Defence Management, Secunderabad, India. He also has a Diploma in Russian Language from Pushkin University. A Nuclear Submarine specialist with an active submarine career of 18 years, he moved to Singapore in Nov 2018. In his career in Indian Navy he has held multitude of appointments in operations, policies, plans, strategic and advisory roles. In Singapore, he was a Financial Advisor at Financial Alliance Pte. Ltd for a year before working for an External Asset Manager as Head of Compliance and Audit at Singapore for two years. At Taurus, he is responsible for Operations pertaining to Wealth Management and Fund Management.

Anindya currently heads APAC KYC operations for the entire Corporate and Investment Banking Division in Deutsche Bank, leading a team of ~650 + people. Anindya has spent the past 8 years in various roles around Client Onboarding / Client Life Cycle Management in DB across operations management and transformation. He has previously worked in Finance / Technology and Operations as part of different roles in DB Singapore since 2005, and has a overall rich banking experience of 22 + years including stints in India and New York with Credit Suisse. He holds a post graduate degree in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore in India. 

Josh has over 15 years of experience working with financial institutions and corporate service providers on name screening, transaction monitoring, sanctions, KYC and source of wealth issues. In particular, Josh has led a number of large complex remediations across all areas of financial crime compliance. Josh has also undertaken a number of transaction monitoring review and inspections on behalf of regulators including the HKMA and SFC.

Senior Leader with 22+ years of experience in Banking & Financial Services industry with specialization in Financial Crime Compliance and Risk Management, spanning over 10+ countries in Asia Pacific.

Over 2 decades of experience with Citi, ABN and SCB handling all Retail, BB and Wealth Products across Ops, technology, financial crime, risk, governance, digital, transformation, data standards and client journey.

Thought Leader with a proven track record in leading large scale transformation programs, new business growth, product and platform buildout and digitization.

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Akshay has over 15 years of experience in Financial Crime Compliance. Akshay has extensively worked on implementing enterprise wide and local regulatory solutions for trade surveillance, screening, transaction monitoring, sanctions, KYC at Citi. At present Akshay leads the In-Business Financial Crime Compliance for Citi Commercial bank APAC.

Andrea is a Financial Crime leader with 20 years of international experience in the private sector as well as in international organisations. He’s an accomplished leader, and has advised financial institutions, governments and large corporations on Fraud, Anti Money Laundering (“AML”), sanctions, counter-terrorism financing (“CTF”), FinCrime technology and geopolitical matters. Multi-lingual, Andrea combines deep international regulatory knowledge with FinCrimes acumen ensuring a balance between compliance and business needs.